Frederick R. Friedel’s Axe and Kidnapped Coed Bleed Across Blu-ray This December
Writer/director Frederick R. Friedel made a pair of low-budget drive-in horror flicks back in the 1970s, but chances are most casual horror fans never had a chance to experience these shocking little flicks in the privacy of their own homes. Fortunately, the kind folks over at Severin Films have your back. The distributor is releasing these forgotten gems on one impossibly cool Blu-ray.
The icing on the cake: This nifty package includes a CD featuring the soundtracks for the aforementioned thrillers. I can already hear my money rapidly disappearing from my bank account.
From the Press Release:
In the mid-1970s, writer/producer/director/actor Frederick R. Friedel went to North Carolina to film a pair of enigmatic yet startling low-budget thrillers – AXE and KIDNAPPED COED – only to see them both presumed lost to shady dealings, sudden tragedies, moral outrage, and drive-in oblivion.
In AXE, depraved killers on the run hold a young woman and her invalid grandfather hostage in an isolated farmhouse. In KIDNAPPED COED, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family forms a perverse relationship with her abductor.
Once thought doomed to drive-in obscurity, fans and grindhouse historians have begun to compare Freidel’s films to those of David Lynch and Terrence Malick, and now the complete story behind this strange journey can finally be told. Severin Films is proud to present both features restored from their original negatives — plus Friedel’s recut of the two features as one twisted crime epic called BLOODY BROTHERS — and loaded with exclusive Bonus Features that reveal the startling saga behind the casts, crews, and surprising rediscovery of these nearly forgotten grindhouse/arthouse classics – the ultimate look at one of the most fascinating sagas in indie exploitation history!
Blu-Ray
- AXE feature, new 2k transfer from Original Negative
- English & German Audio Tracks
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Phil Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter & PA Richard W. Helms
- KIDNAPPED COED feature, new 2k transfer from Original Negative
- English & German Audio Tracks
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Phil Smoot & Makeup Artist Worth Keeter
- BLOODY BROTHERS feature, conformed from new transfers of hybrid feature
- Audio Commentary with “Nightmare USA” Author Stephen Thrower
- At Last… Total Terror! – The Incredible True Story of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (61 mins.)
- Moose Magic – Soundtrack Composers George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm Featurette (38 mins)
- “Nightmare USA Author” Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (10 mins)
- Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots
- Special Limited 2-Disc Edition comes with Audio CD of the first ever release of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED Original Motion Picture Soundtracks. Plus Bonus Tracks by Soundtrack Composers George Newman Shaw & John Willhelm
There will also be a single DVD version with specs as follows:
DVD
- AXE feature
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Phil Smoot, Makeup Artist Worth Keeter & PA Richard W. Helms
- KIDNAPPED COED feature
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Frederick R. Friedel, Production Manager Phil Smoot & Makeup Artist Worth Keeter
- At Last… Total Terror! – The Making of AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (61 mins)
- Stephen Thrower on AXE & KIDNAPPED COED (10 mins)
- Trailers, TV Spots & Radio Spots
The Axe and Kidnapped Coed Blu-ray streets on December 8.
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